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5% of the Net is Unreachable

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-never-the-spammer-percent dept.

dasheiff writes "A BBC Story says US researchers reveal that up to 5% of the internet is completely unreachable. However the most interesting part is that they reported that many of the lost net sites flare into life briefly when being used to send spam or to launch attacks on other parts of the net."

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  1. A different theory by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Interesting
    If 5% is unreachable then it's not part of the net. So, at all times 100% is reachable, the net is just variable in size.

    I've run into sites which are up or down and often they're in a small shop and they actually power down their server (or it happens with a power/service outage) Lots of broken links on images. It would be interesting to see a statistic on how many pages which are technically non-functional still exist, i.e. with parts unable to display due to broken links, from sites gone away or pages moved but links not updated (which even M$N does from time to time)

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